{"id":23909,"date":"2025-01-25T14:21:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T20:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=23909"},"modified":"2025-01-25T14:21:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T20:21:26","slug":"his-hers-ours-and-the-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/25\/his-hers-ours-and-the-neighbors\/","title":{"rendered":"His, Hers, Ours, and the Neighbors?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When encountering a family of parent(s) and children, always consider the possibility that the children are not full biological siblings. Some children could have been from previous relationships either parent had and others could be theirs together. Even if there were no divorces or separations, previous spouses could have either abandoned their family or died. Left with children to support, remarriage was relatively common especially if the remaining parent\u2019s economic status made it necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s always the possibility as well that some of those &#8220;children&#8221; were children of relatives of one of the parents or a children of a neighbor that they took in. Household membership may be more fluid than you think&#8211;especially if there was room and child was old enough to help out with chores, farm work, or similar tasks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Never assume that what appears to be a \u201chusband wife and their children\u201d actually is. It may not be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When encountering a family of parent(s) and children, always consider the possibility that the children are not full biological siblings. Some children could have been from previous relationships either parent had and others could be theirs together. Even if there were no divorces or separations, previous spouses could have either abandoned their family or died. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}